An INNOVATIVE HYBRID SIMULATION APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING MARITIME LOGISTICS

When dealing with the modeling and simulation of transportation and logistics problems, the Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is one of the most used techniques, especially when dealing with the operational context. Other authors have addressed the logistics context by using the System Dynamics (SD) simulation that works in the continuous time. In order to overcome these issues, the authors propose an innovative methodological approach able to effectively address particular kind of logistics and transportation problems by utilizing a hybrid System Dynamics simulation.